soundtrack of my life

29th May 2010

2010-05-29T15:29:00.002+08:00

So, my last update was sometime in january? new year's post.
well, lots of thing have happened between then and now. big ones are :
1. office trip to perhentian
2. getting my raise
and probably the most important one :
3. been nicotine free since 22nd may 2010

so yeah, i guess that is big enough to push me to write something about it.

so, lets recap. i first started smoking in 2003. my first ever stick was in march i think. then it was nothing till maybe june that year. it was during my first semester in uitm. peer pressure and boredome got the better of me i guess. i still remember the line Adly said to me when i wanted to buy my first box. "jangan beli, nanti terus sangkut." to which i answered "takde la, aku beli nak ganti yang aku pau korang punya. tak isap banyak pun". so funny. fast forward 6 years later, i was steadily puffing down 1 pack a day. sometimes more.

so finally, i stopped. its been a week. so far its been ok. sometimes the urge becomes strong. usually its bearable. i do notice i am more easily annoyed by little things and my driving habit is changing. i drive faster than i usually do, and i tend to use the horn more. also, i eat a lot more. so i guess what they say is true.

well, i hope i can ride this storm out and come out unscathed on the other side.

Happy new year!

2010-01-06T00:21:00.002+08:00

now its really been a while..last post was sometime back in october...
lots of things to write..if i can remember them..
lets see, some 2009 highlights..
1. got confirmed as permanent at mesiniaga.
2. Android!
3. No Use For A Name "Feel good tour of the year"
4. MXPX All Stars in Malaysia

Those are some of the good events in 2009.. i hope 2010 will be filled with more punk rock shows :D

anyway, the transition from 2009 to 2010 was a roller coaster. first was the never ending year end closing for mesiniaga. i still can't believe after all these years, they still are n00bs at that. come on, its new year's eve, people have plans, and there is a time limit on when you can do transactions, don't fucking decide to implement a new process at 4pm, when you could have decided the same fucking thing 3 months earlier. it would have saved a lot of people a lot of time.
what a bunch of morons..

anyways, managed to get off work at 8pm that day, rush to KJ LRT to pick up Zura then went straight to the barber. had planned to cut my hair and remove my beard and mustache for a while now, and 31 dec was the day to do it. i look so different. last time i went clean shaven was probably in 2003.

then it was home for a quick shower then off to Hana's. the usual uno, pizza, lepak, fireworks, lepak again, borak session.

after that, came the long weekend. took extra time off from work, so i had a total of 5 days to laze around.

spent the last 2 days of my break re-living my post-spm days. went to the curve on monday and ikea+curve+ou on tuesday. walking around aimlessly in shopping malls. heh. wonder why i did it that much then.

anyways, its 12:30am, 6th of jan 2010, which translates to 8:20am 5th Jan 2010 in California. More importantly, San Francisco, CA. at 10am, Google will be making an announcement on the Nexus One. Should be interesting to see what that will bring. what, i wonder, will be the official price for that piece of tech. 1ghz proc, 512mb of ram, 512mb of rom, 3.7in OLED capacitive touch screen, 5mp camera with LED flash, gps, magenometer (aka digital compass), bluetooth, wifi, proximity sensor and light sensor, for a phone. mmm. best of all, it will be running android 2.1. i wish i can get my hands on that.

someone donate me a Nexus One please :D. rumor says 530USD. which translates to RM1900++ . which isn't bad at all considering what other models with lesser capabilities are being sold for here. but there are rumors that it will be available in europe for 199 euros (RM970) later in q1. which is even cheaper. so i hope that is true. time to fire up my credit card again :p

well, i guess the world will find out in a few hours. waking up will be fun with me trying to catch up with all the news.

looking forward to the cameron highlands trip with the usuals on 16th-17th jan, followed by the genting trip with the purchasers and their families on 23rd-24th jan. going to be so broke.

what a (insert appropriate reference to time here)....

2009-10-22T21:20:00.000+08:00

been really really busy.. barely have time to sit down and think (it doesn't help that the free time i have i will spend it doing things to avoid thinking).. and when i say busy, i mean busy. to the point of ignoring TLK. how do you like that?

its really been a while since i wrote here..
raya has passed and it was a great one. off to the real world again. as usual, with raya coming and going, so did my plan to quit. but then again it was never a real conviction to actually do it.

tried something new. twice. but i guess i should not be writing it here.

anyways as been the theme with what i have wrote here these past few months,
android updates :)
1.6 aka donut is offically here. we are all longing for the wonders of 2.0 aka eclair.
currently using CM 4.1.9999. waiting for the 4.2.0 to drop, which should be this weekend. wonder what changes will be made since he is dropping BFS for another "trick".

on the personal life side, have been moving about a lot. 2 weeks ago i went up to seri iskandar and bota. attended a friends wedding there. so had the opportunity to drive around my old campus. which is great. the place has changed so much since i was there. beautiful. brings back loads of memories.

last weekend again headed up to ipoh. this time for a small gathering for my late pak long.
they changed the highway layout! was weird. almost missed the exit.

the next day was the long awaited "No Use For A Name's "The Feel Good Concert Of The year". and man did it feel good. haven't had that much fun in a long time. opening acts Plague Of Happiness kicked ass and so did NUFAN. my body still aches a little for the day. but fun it was.

the following day, monday, i went to shah alam for lya's convocation. congrats to her. on with the next step. good luck.

other than that, everything have pretty much stayed the same.

oh yeah, waiting for december now. MxPx All-Stars headed to KL. should be fun also. another session of sakit badan.

off to maulana.

mmm...donut...

2009-09-17T15:01:00.000+08:00

its been 2 weeks+ since trying CM 4.0.2. That build has progressed to CM 4.1.10.1 (Link) currently.
Which is totally based on the Donut code with addition of BFS(Link).

Donut basically rocks. since using this ROM, i do notice that the overall experiance and interface is a lot smoother and a lot faster. but with the addition on BFS, everything has been moving a lot faster. Boot times slash, initial setup halved. things like the phone locking onto the Maxis signal has also improved. I am loving it.

Other notable improvements is the global search function. it is so good to finally be able to do that.

other than that, there are some nice upgrade on the way things look. but overall, it remains the same.

A couple of days back i managed to spoof the network setting thanks to Market Enabler(Link). now i can view and purchase paid apps. yeay! and no!
so far gotten for myself :
1. Abduction : World Attack
2. Android IRC
3. Album Art Grabber
4. Twidroid Pro

Anyways, Ramadhan is almost over. So I wanna say sorry to all those i have hurt. I hope i can get your forgiveness. i forgive anything that has happen. Let bygone be bygone.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri,
Maaf Zahir Dan Batin.

impromptu project

2009-08-27T09:18:00.000+08:00

so, yesterday i woke up late, 8:30 am to be precise, instead of 7:30 am which i normally would.
so naturally, i ended up not going to work. i figured it was not worth the trouble going through the traffic, reach work late and get a crappy parking spot thats too far away from the office, and also in a less secure area, i might as well stay at home and burn 1 more day off my annual leave (i got a some left over still anyways.

so after the usual TLK(link) and Earth:2025(link) sessions, i wondered my way to XDA-Devs(link).
after reading up there and some discussion with myself, i decided to reflash my phone ROM to a new one. the current one is "daldroid Rogers ROM", the new one i decided to flash onto my phone is the stable branch of Cyanogenmod 4.0.2 for 32A Magic.

the process went on smoothly, i have been using it for close to 24 hours, and so far have not encountered any problems.

so, the pros of the upgrade :
1. the rom is fast, very responsive.
2. i have 5 screens instead of 3 (yeay!)
3. the new donut power control widget!
4. the music player widget is much better now. (no more playlist empty displaying)
5. voice dialler and voice search
6. some subtle but spiffy visual upgrades all over the place

the cons:
1. i lost all my words in my dictionary, so i need to reenter it again
2. the phone book/contact management is a bit iffy, it does not recognise numbers like normal phones do. ex, 01261xxxxx and +601261xxxxx is not recosnised under the same contact. other phones would have recognised that its the same number. but small fix for that.
3 . the very functional HTC dialer is gone. but hey, i'll survive..

also, i got a cool program for the PC/android based phone that allows you to tether your phone as a modem. priced at USD29, but after the trial is over, you can still used the program, but are limited to http connections. so its essentially free to use for browsing.

the program is called PDAnet for android(link).

so i tested out the PDAnet. and i gotta say it rocks. speed test i made proved it all. screen shot of it is at home. i will post it later if i remember. but here is what i did :
downloaded a 90Mb file via rapidshare premium. normal speed for that (on streamyx 512kbps) is 60-65kbps. using PDAnet and maxis 3G (note that i wasnt even connected at HSDPA speed), i managed to blazing average of 250kbps, with the max topping out at around 290kbps.(click on the image for a better view)

so thats all for this round of updates. :)

been a while..

2009-08-24T11:31:00.000+08:00

the last time i updated anything here is a few days after layla was born. tomorrow she will be 1 month old. time do fly by. She is growing quick. sooo chubby now. i might update this post with some pictures later. need to take new ones of her. i guess she take a little from me, with the non stop eating.

EDIT: here is the promised Picture.

anyways, its ramadhan again. wishing all muslim a wonderful ramadhan ahead. have a great one.

Oh and on another note,

HTC will probably upgrade the Magic user to HTC Sense UI.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/16/htc-to-offer-sense-upgrade-for-magic-in-october-wont-be-free/

new addition..

2009-07-30T16:20:00.000+08:00

So this is a little delayed. been a little preoccupied with other things previously.

so anyways, on saturday 25th of July 2009, at 6:32pm, my sister gave birth to a baby girl. Its her first child, making it it the first grandchild for my parents and the first niece for me and my other sister. so everyone is pretty much excited. cool stuff :)

More pics on :

http://picasaweb.google.com/str4vag/Soochi

droid update

2009-07-23T14:43:00.000+08:00

so, tomorrow will mark the first week i have been using the phone.

so far, all has been going well, except for yesterday's hard reset, more on that later.

apps/tools i have been using :

browser : i love it. fast and easy to use. love the multiple windows on that. really needs to have flash support.

music player : good. havent use it a lot yet. but a built in grabber for the album cover would be useful.

any cut : works flaslessly.

androzip : this is cool. unzips most archive formats. and able to create gzip, zip and tar. missing RAR create, but as long as i can unrar, its good enough.

backup for root user : dont think it works. had to hard reset due to an app messing up my notification tray. tried to restore but nothing happened.

appmanager : works, easy access to all apps.

astrid : works as well. good task management tool

firc chat : this is cool except for the fast that on portrait mode, the keyboard block the last few lines of chat. so you have to constantly minimise the keyboard to see what happening. otherwise a good irc app for the phone.

meebo im : works as advertised. but there was never really any doubt since it was developed by meedo. so good msn/ym intergration.

oi notepad + oi safe : oi notepad is just a normal note taking app. but coupled with oi safe (which is a password/credit card/sensitive info encrypter) it gets even better as you get the option of encrypting and decyrpting your notes.

places directory is cool. tried it once. it works. found the gas stations near where i was. will be playing around with it more to see intergration with google maps and navigation.

google map rocks! enough said

sky map is a little buggy so far. everytime i try to find the moon, it tells me to point the phone towards the floor. no idea what is the problem there.

youtube app is fast and easy. good to use.

intergration with picasa and youtube is nice. so far tried only the picasa intergration by uploading a picture there. fast!. you can ever create new albums from withing the upload dialog which is quite cool.

speed is good. downloaded a 44mb file via mediafire in less than 15 minutes. unrar-ing the file too longer for some reason. but hey, if i can get music anywhere anything like this, i am not complaining.

barcode scanner is fun to play with :)

shazam is fun. its a software that listens to songs and will retrieve info about it. handy for those moments of "eh, who sang that song ek?"

snaptell is an app that takes photos of books and CD and then it will match it to a database of products. when a match is found, it gives you link to online stores and direction to nearest stores (you need gps enables of course)

astro is an awesome file manager. but i wish it would recognise a folder when it sees one and put it up to a-la windows.

battery life on the phone these past few days is horrible ( well not really, but it is bad)

it can last from 8 am to only about 4pm. but to the phone's defence, i was on it most of the time browsing, playing games and such, so i consider it to be heavy usage. its 3.15pm now. seems like there is 40% more juice left. seems like its getting better with age. or maybe

the trick of draining the battery till it goes flat and then charging it works.

MAGIC!!!!

2009-07-19T10:42:00.000+08:00

Finally got my HTC Magic on friday. Went straight to FreshGear at digital mall after work that day.

At first, it was a let down. apparently, HTC Malaysia decided to cripple the device by removing the google services (i was surprised as the HTC Magic is suppose to be a google experience phone). So there was no sync to gmail, to google contacts, google calender, no integration with picasa (photos) and youtube. so it was really a bummer. Worst still, there was no android market either, that makes getting apps into the phone a pain, with the provided SlideMe application manager only having less than 300 apps (compared to the at least 4000 app on android market).

So, on Saturday, after a lot of researching, reading and asking questions on xda-developers, i decided to re-flash the phone with a modified ROM. i went with Daldroid's HTC Magic ROM. It features the goodies that HTC supplied to their phones (quickoffice, pdf reader and MS Exchange support) and also the google goodies.

It was a tense 1 hour when i decided to flash the ROM. As if you did it wrongly, there is a chance that your phone will turn into a very expensive brick.

anyway, at the end, i managed to complete the process without any hiccups, and managed to get the ROM working and now i have root access as well.

I am loving the new interface. Been spending some time finding useful apps for the phone.

Thats all for now.

Android, dawn of a new era.

its has been decided!

2009-07-14T10:12:00.000+08:00

i am going with the magic..now for the thing to be available..which is said to be after 19th july..

waiting is such a pain..

2009-06-29T12:00:00.000+08:00

so many choices.........which to go for?

Dream?

Magic?

Hero?

hmmmmmm

Magic

2009-05-18T10:57:00.001+08:00

That word has many relevance in these past few days.

1. Started playing Magic: The Gathering card game again

2. Orlando Magic beats the Boston Celtics in game 7 of the Conference Semifinals :(

3. HTC releasing the Magic to Asia without carrier support in June in Singapore.

the part that really gets me excited is the last one. HTC Magic is the 2nd Android phone from HTC. And if its true, when the phone gets released in singapore, it will also be oficially available in Malaysia as well. fun :). (link)

More info about HTC Magic

GSM Arena

HTC Official Site

juniper...

2009-05-15T16:26:00.000+08:00

Juniper is a brand of networking products. Juniper is also the reason i am so bored at work.

last week, the IS department got their hands on a new Juniper Hardware Firewall, has been successful in blocking most of the internet out. so for the past 2 weeks, i have been sitting in front of my desk at work completely bored, and sleepy.

Up side to it is that i smoke more. yippee!

So anyways, what was once a great window to limitless knowledge, entertainment, trivial knowledge, the occasional porn, the stress relieving games and much much more has been reduced dramatically.

some of the victims of this crime includes the last knights (GASP!), facebook, xkcd(GASP!), imdb, warez-bb, chuck norris facts and many other websites deemed as an enemy to productivity.

so with that i am left hanging around at these 3 websites hoping to see if there are any new updates. phonedog, phandroid, gsmarena.

I WANT MY ANDROID PHONE!.

listen...

2009-03-29T13:18:00.000+08:00

just visited plague of happiness' (link) myspace page. noticed that the new songs they have been recording for the past few week is up. they are called "hasrat" and "useless enemy". great songs. keep it up guys. :)

leave today with something i have been listening to for a while,

The Flatliners - Do Or Die

wake up late in the day, i'm roaming the streets, i'm awake
headache, gonna kill the pain with some pills, i'm falling asleep today
reluctantly trying to keep a straight face
i'm in decay, i'm okay everything is okay
thinking "do or die" with a smile, feeling alright
but i just can't think with this being rubbed in my face
tear gas and grenades
it's just another day

running, fucking running, running on no sleep
while i see you quit, i can't say the same for me
harder to kick than you think where a good times still had
i'm glad you're thinking of me
but when you look in the rear view mirror, all you're gonna see is me

wasting away, i'm waiting in line today
pigeonholed, but the police don't care about me
why would they? who are they to take pride with every stride of their step?
you know they try too hard to impress the likes of me
thats right, you lied to me, or was that someone else?
i can't remember in my current state
don't fucking tell me i wont remember in the morning
just tell me when this is getting boring
i think we're at that point
this is gonna end up killing me

wake up late in the day
i'm awake, headache gonna kill the pain
wasting away, i'm waiting in line today
i'm falling asleep today

birthday

2009-03-01T21:15:00.000+08:00

the scene was lembah pantai, Pantai Medical Centre to be precise. the year was 1985. after months of planning, and hours of battling, at 8.40 PM, Thurday, the 28th of February a baby boy was born. Faizal was the name given to this little boy.

Fast forward 24 years later, and the boy has grown in to a man (alleged). And just finished celebrating his birthday.

this birthday has been one to remember. and i have my friends and family to thank for that. for the first time ever i had a quad celebration.

1. 25th Feb 2009
was surprised by The Usuals at Marco's Pizza, Kelana Jaya. went there for what seemed to be Nana's farewell before she went back to Kiwi-land. ended up with a surprise on my end for an advanced party. thank you shaz, mal, din, hana, hani, puchi, nana, sue and last but not least zura.
was indeed a big surprise even though the waiter brought the cake knife first. actually, to tell everyone the truth, when he brought the knife and nana burst out laughing, i seriously thought that the surprise was on Nana. it didnt even connect that it was for my birthday.

2. 27th Feb 2009
got cornered at the office. was sitting peacefully at between kak marinah and kak radzlina looking at old pictures of the SSD&P family when sham grabbed me from behind. out of nowhere a tub of strawberry icing appeared. everyone proceeded to smear icing on my face and then the cake was brought. hehe. a good one. didn't see that coming. thank you to kak marinah, kak radzlina, kak gee, boss, kak zizi, mai, che ar, sham, shaun, fehmi, azura, nani and che mah

3. 28th Feb 2009
was a small gathering at home. good food, a cake and the extended family was there. simple and sweet. thank you yaya, apis, mama, abah, lya, pear, kak anne, abg nazri, siddiq, amir and last but not least zura.

4. 28th Feb 2009
a big gathering at my home away from home. lepak, laughing and good company. extremely good cupcakes. but due to an uneasy stomach, i didnt get to enjoy much of it. almost managed to get all the bros together. technically all came, but ash had to leave early. special mention goes to 2 representative of Fubson for making it too :)
thank you to mal, shaz, yoi, amin, swen, coballte, hasif,raqib, lan, ash, bro, bear, baizura, nad, and last but not least zura.

thank you all again for making it super special this year :)

Melacca Trip

2009-02-17T14:46:00.000+08:00

so, this past weekend, me and a big group of my friends went over to melacca to relax and get our dose of history.

as planned, we met up at maulana at 9 am on satuday, where we had breakfast and waited for departure. we left ttdi around 10.30-ish and headed for the sungai besi toll gate. there were 11 of us in 3 cars. driving was me in my car, mal in hana's car and sue in her car.

the drive was uneventful, mostly maintaining a safe speed of between 90-110 km/h. after what seemed like forever, we decided to stop at the "restoran jejantas" rest stop between alor gajah and ayer keroh exit. we rested for about 10 minutes before moving on again.

after exiting the highway, we headed straight into the heart of melacca city. from there, we walked around stadhuys, st. paul church, around a famosa. later, we headed to a food court to have a late lunch. stayed there for a while before moving again to melaka central to pick up puchi and ira. by the time we met up with them it was almost 4 in the afternoon.

with ira and puchi joining us, thus completes the line-up, that comprises of:
me, zura,nana,shaz,mal,hani,effan,hana,sue,shira,fadhilah,put and ira.

from melaka central, we headed straight to klebang beach in search of our home away from home . after about half an hour of searching , we finally found the place. its a small old style single story bungalow with 4 rooms. it was big enough to fit probably about 20 people.

we rested, bathed, watched tv, played guitar hero till about 7.15 before we headed to umbai for dinner. ikan bakar was on the menu for most, as it is the specialty of the area.

after that we headed back to the heart of melacca city for walk around and take the sights and sounds of jonker street at night. walked for probably 3 hours before finally heading home at around 12.30. fun place. colorful, lots of people, lots of things up for sale. reminds me of the old uptown. i miss that place.

by the time we reached home, most of us were already too tired so most of us went to sleep. me, shaz and mal however stayed awake to play a round of tai-ti aka big two aka royal. to make it more interesting, we decided to have the loser of each round down a cup of water all in one go. after 7 games, the results were shaz with 4 cups, mals with 2 cups and me with just 1.

at about 3.30am everyone has slept. apparently of the 3, i was the first one to open up my boxer engine and rumbled all night. thankfully, all 3 of us were able to sleep soundly.

the 3rd day saw us going once again to jonker street. we had our breakfast/lunch at a place called limau limau cafe. its a small cafe with interesting decor and a very cosy atmosphere. food is good and the milkshakes are good.

after lunch we walked over to menara taming sari. there we got on and enjoyed a 360 view of the city and surrounding area from 80 metres up. breathtaking. its nice to get to see something from a different angle once in a while.

after that was the melacca zoo. normal. nothing to shout about. but it was stil great to see shaz meeting his soulmate the pink parrot. took a trem ride around the zoo and then went out.

from there it was a race home. dropped zura off at kajang, dropped ira off at KJ LRT, then headed to uptown to have dinner with nana and put.

interesting and tiring weekend. way too much walking. but still, good to spend some time with friends.

neglected...

2009-02-07T17:01:00.000+08:00

2009 has been a busy year. with the start of the calander year, work was a mess. so many things to do. when it finally died down, we had a few days to relax then came the audit. more work. more digging files and more hassle. i wish i was on the other end of the audit. asking poeple to dig up info rather than doing the digging myself. its so troublesome.

anways, those events has lead me to neglect this little portion of the web. i guess i will update stuff later. who know :)

p/s : its been really quiet around here this past week. thank god for the new TLK age. at least something to distract me.

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T15:47:00.000+08:00

Good bye 2008 and hello 2009.

A year has passed and a new one has just begun. this the the time of resolutions, of new beginnings, well wishing and also wishful thinking. every year, we set noble (and sometimes impossible) goals for ourselves to try and achieve in the coming year. and as usual, if asked, mine will simply be to "quit smoking". everyone has heard that before and everyone knows that it never happens, save a few rare cases. we'll see how this year goes.

so to everyone in the world, happy new year. may this one be better than the last.

fork in the road..

2008-12-23T00:18:00.000+08:00

i am the proverbial fork in the road. now trying to figure out whether to go left or right.

at one end i am so tired of the current routine and at the other i am unsure of how things will turn out if i go that way.

but this past week has really shown me that i should try and branch out. i really don't want to be doing what i am doing now. its really boring.

with that, i wish myself good luck.

updates

2008-11-24T09:29:00.000+08:00

its been a while since my last update here. 20 days to be exact. a lot of things have been going on. so let me try and fit what i can remember into this here post.

So lets see. been online a lot lately, but mostly spend time focusing on The Last Knights or TLK, so i don't have the inclination to do anything else. heh. me and my addictive nature.

so lets see, since my last post, abah and mama have gotten familiarized withe their new phones. they seem to be liking it. no more random "how to" question being asked on how to do things on their phones. they seem to have it figured out.

another about phone, i think my bluetooth radio on my phone is busted. crap. no more file transfer. and the option to use my bluetooth handsfree is also gone. shucks.

Zura finished her degree on the 16th. her last paper ended at 12:30 PM on Sunday, 16th November 2008. so i went over to melaka to pick up all the stuff that needs to be brought back to kajang. was a full car load.

So here, i want to say Congratulations to Zura for completing her degree. all the best in job hunting. please make sure you get a good paying job so you can save up and belanja me. you have to cause you are more qualified than me. :p

on the 18th, me and zura went over to UITM perak to pick our sisters up. and by sisters, i mean my sister lya and her sister ateh. both of them are studying in uitm perak. as some of you know lya is doing her diploma in accountancy and is in her 5th semester. so next semester will be her last. ateh is doing her diploma in geomatic science and is in her 2nd semester.

so we come to last weekend. last saturday was the annual stock take in mesiniaga. its was an interesting experiance as it was my first time participating in a stock take. it was a cool experiance as i have been learning about stock takes in my studies and now i finally get to participate and experiance it myself. though not from the auditor's point of view. but it was still a good experiance. after the stock take, the whole SSD&P gang headed over to muntaha's wedding.

so here i would like to extend my congratulations to Muntaha and Fara for tying the knot. good luck and god speed to both of you.

Yesterday me, put, hani, hana, shaz, irfan, nana and din went to santai to hang out and celebrate din's 23rd bithrday. had cake which is nice and just chilled and talked. discussed a little about the trip we all are supose to be going. nothing conclusive came out of that though. i guess discussions will be continued again soon.

i guess that is all i have to say for now. :)

tiiiiiirreeeed

2008-11-05T00:33:00.001+08:00

work has been interesting the past 2 days. got to help kak radz sorting out cisco routers for a trade in for a customer. did it half day yesterday, whole day today. very tiring as we were carrying boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of routers and switches. those things are bloody heavy. fun part is that i get to do something other than sitting in front of a pc processing orders. nice change of pace there.

all the work done, me and kak radz had a nice chat about the department. learned a lot about the the ups and downs of working there.

then came home, help mama and abah set up thier new phones. mama's phone was a breeze to set up. withing 20 minutes i managed to transfer all the contacts from her old phone to her new one, set up gprs and mms. so all set.

abah's phone however was a different story. the main concern is moving all that phone numbers. should have been easy 'cept for the fact that his old phone is a motorola. bloddy hell, those phones are terrible. totally not user friendly. so copying names to sim card and then transfering it to the new phone was out of the picture. so i decided to use the computer to copy all numbers out then moving it into the new phone. the computer cant detect the phone. took me almost 5 hours just to get the pc to read the data on the phone. hmm, if everything was as simple as my Sony Ericcson, i would have had it done in 10 minutes.

its 12:40 and i'm still awake. waiting for the contact info to ger uploaded into the new phone. have to get it done today, otherwise, it will be hard for abah go about on his usual business tomorrow.

so tired. my body aches, my head aches, and i'm soo sleepy.

sick

2008-10-29T22:56:00.000+08:00

came down a fever, cough and flu yesterday. it sucks. with that it would just take its turn and not come all at once. so miserable. hope it goes away soon. i don't mind coughing and the fever. its the flu that is really annoying.

anyways, mama and abah just came back from italy. brought back some gourmet coffee and tea and lots of chocolate. coffee looks interesting. going to try it in a bit.

another week..

2008-10-20T00:24:00.000+08:00

another week of work. so bored. but there isn't much of a choice is there? have to soldier on.
at least i can look forward to the long weekend next week. fun.

Thursday - War All Of The Time

Standing on the edge of the Palisades' Cliffs
In the shadow of the skyline {it seemed} very far away
Like a lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me
{When} I was 5 years old, my best friend's older brother died
He fell from these cliffs
{And} the river washed him away, the current pulled him downstream
And our lives float in the headlines, so we park these cars
{In our} parent's garage
{To} listen to the lullaby
Of carbon monoxide

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast, falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
If the sun doesn't rise
We'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion
A painted jail cell of light in the sky
Like three-mile-island nightmares on TVs that sing us to sleep
They burn on and on like an oil field
Or a memory of what it felt like
To burn on and on and not just fade away
All those nights in the basement, the kids are still screaming
"On and on and on and on.................."

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast, falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
And we're blowing in the wind
We don't know where to land
So we kiss like little kids
We used to be very tall buildings
We've been falling for so long
Now your eyes are a sign on the edge of town
They offer a welcome, when you are leaving

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast, falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
{When} the pieces fall it's like a last day parade
And the fires in our streets start to rage,
So wave to those people who long to wave back
from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"

War all the time, war all the time
All of the time
War all the time, war all the time
All of the time
All of the time
War all of the time
War all of the time
War all of the time
War all of the time

..

2008-10-12T20:35:00.001+08:00

no plan survives the contact with the enemy

i read that somewhere a long time ago. and to this day, i find it really really true. so we have to be able to adapt to changing situations.

i like to think that i can easily adapt, in most cases i think its true.

so now i have to try harder.

issues, food and forklifts..

2008-10-10T00:44:00.000+08:00

had meeting at the warehouse yesterday morning.. me and shaun was the chair persons for the meeting. our department his this policy that every meeting will be chaired by 2 persons from the department on a rotation basis. its interesting. nerve wrecking as it was my first time to host a meeting for my department. both me and shaun are infants when compared to how long these people has been working in mesiniaga.
anyways, meeting went off without any problems thankfully. we had to prepare food and also find issues to discuss.

this particular meeting is unique because it was also the department's raya open house so to speak. so the food is of course raya food. so there was ketupat, rendang, lemang and the many kuih and kek raya. yours truly did not eat however. given the limitations.

everyone was dressed in baju kurung and baju melayu. very festive. which is then followed by the compulsory picture taking session.

the whole department
from left:
standing : che ah, nizam, sham, jep, sani, sharul, mun, shaun, fai
sitting : radz, marinah, marjit, boss, mai, tr, zizi

highlight of the day is being hoisted by the forklift. hehe. so up high...

back to work

2008-10-06T21:04:00.000+08:00

5 days went by so fast. first it was the eve of eid. now its monday and its back to work. back to the same old routine.

thankfully today was very uneventful. nothing to rush for and nothing to chase down.

had lunch with mal just now. then went to check out memory cards and bluetooth handsfree for his phone. those people at suband parade are trying to cheat everyone. the memory cards were sold at rm170. normally it would be rm100 at most. there was even one place selling it for rm299. i mean, come on, people are not as stupid as they were before, you cannot expect to get away with that kind of mark ups anymore.

one thing to look forward too : the usual teh o ais sessions at mosin after work. less people around, but still something fun to do to unwind.

Eid

2008-09-29T15:26:00.000+08:00

After a month of fasting (well, almost. Technically I am writing this a full 32 hrs and 31 minutes before the stroke of midnight that will bring the calander to 1st Oct 2008, or 1st Syawal)

but what a month it has been. at times it feels like it flew right by. at times it crawled slowly.

i enjoyed this Ramadhan.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
Maaf Zahir Dan Batin.

till next time...

2008-09-28T04:19:00.000+08:00

few hrs earlier i had to say goodbye to a dear friend, a comrade, a brother, a bandmate and an awesome human being albeit only till next july..

fazly and hadiid left for england just now. a new chapter begins in their life. i wish them both good luck.

going to miss having fazly around. no one to spark the "katai" fest at maulana, no one to play the guitar for the jamming sessions and no one to be the "sengalest" person anymore.

again, good luck both of you. don't ever change from the persons you are. make sure your morals stay intact.

calanders marked to july '09, jamming sessions!

jeng jeng jeng HEY!

give 'em hell!

finally got my rig

2008-09-23T02:50:00.000+08:00

haha..after what seems to be endless years of waiting, i finally got my own rig at home..2nd hand rig, but still good.
of the top of my head, i can recall this as the spec:
Pentiom D (LGA775) 2.8GHZ

2GB of 667MHZ ram via 2x512MB and 1x1024MB
200GB SATA Drive
EVGA nVidia GeForce 7600 GS SLI ready
SLI ready Asus Mobo (can't remember specific model) it is however SLI ready
19" CRT monitor (lol monster of a monitor. if it was a 19" LCD, it won't be bad)

was looking at what i can do with it and saw that the current line of Core 2 duo and Core 2 quad processors are using LGA775 sockets also. which means i can easily swap the processor to something faster. and i still have 1 empty slot for memory. not to mention i still can easily change the 512MBs to 1GB later.. curse the 32-bit system's limit of 4GB.

i did however extended my virtual memory range from between 2048MB-4096MB to between 4096MB-5120MB

this is currently the temp placement for the rig.

i kind of like it where it is, but it's a little too cramped up for typing and gaming as there is no space to put the mouse and the keyboard other than my bed. getting a table soon for it anyway. so the positioning will change.

ironically however, this post is done at work instead of using the kick ass new rig.

Dicovery channel song, with a twisted twist.

2008-09-12T10:50:00.000+08:00

Enjoy

in my head

2008-09-11T09:49:00.000+08:00

Rise Against - Paper Wings

One last thing I beg you please just before you go
I've watched you fly on paper wings halfway around the world
Until they burned up in the atmosphere and sent you spiraling down
landing somewhere far from here with no one else around
to catch you falling down
and I'm looking at you now

and I can't tell if you're laughing
between each smile there's a tear in your eye
there's a train leaving town in an hour
it's not waiting for you, and neither am I

"Swing for the fences, son" he must have told you once
but that was a conversation you took nothing from
so raise your glass now, lets celebrate exactly what you've done
just put off another day of knowing where you're from
you can catch up with yourself if you run...

and I can't tell if you're laughing
between each smile there's a tear in your eye
there's a train leaving town in an hour
it's not waiting for you, and neither am I

is this the life that you lead,
or the life that's lead for you?
will you take the road that's been laid out before you?
will we cross paths somewhere else tonight?
somewhere else tonight...

and I can't tell if you're laughing
between each smile there's a tear in your eye
there's a train leaving town in an hour
it's not waiting for you, and neither am I
[x2]

Rise Against – Anywhere But here

We've been alright up until now,
but the air that we breathe is about to run out.
We've rehearsed our lines clear and loud,
but the cue never came and the lights,
they never went down.
So we're passing the time,
while time passes us.
The fast lanes a term never applied to us.
Without a dime to my name,
or a prayer in the world.
I walk out the door.

Destination anywhere but here.
Away from you.

Now I'm on my way to the other side,
(On my way)
I'll forget everything I left behind.
(On my way)
These empty rooms,
(On my way)
are still filled with you.
(On my way)

So I dropped out of my own race,
a race with no finish line,
no first or last place.
These faces all rush right past me.
I turn and walk away,
cause we finally know now what our
time here's about, we were not meant to be
another face in the crowd.
We're a forest of lives,
but we grow tall and wide.
We'll never be cut down.

Destination anywhere but here.
Away from you.

Now I'm on my way to the other side,
(On my way)
I'll forget everything I left behind.
(On my way)
These empty rooms,
(On my way)
are still filled with you.
(On my way)

I'm so tired and turned around and scared.
I'm lying in empty beds again.
I'll wait for you to come
to your senses, barbed-wire fences
won't keep me from breaking through.
I swear I will to you.

Now I'm on my way to the other side,
(On my way)
I'll forget everything I left behind.
(On my way)
These empty rooms,
(On my way)
are still filled with you.
(On my way)

I'm so tired and turned around and scared.
I'm lying in empty beds again.
Away from you.

square root of three

2008-09-10T18:09:00.000+08:00

Heard this once in Harold and Kumar 2.

i think its nice.

I’m sure that I will always be

A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,

Why must my three keep out of sight

Beneath the vicious square root sign,

I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,

with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321

Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,

Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,

Together now we multiply

To form a number we prefer,

Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds

With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued

Your love for me has been renewed

buka puasa

2008-09-09T11:20:00.000+08:00

last sunday had a buka puasa session with the guys from uitm perak. so much fun. been a while since the last time we gathered like that and hang out. so it was great. lots of stories were told, reminicing about the old days. haha. suddently i feel old.
just wanna say thanks to the guys who came down on sunday. mags, hasif, raqib, sukri, syukri, cher, adly and bulu.

ramadhan

2008-09-06T07:04:00.000+08:00

today is friday, 5th september. also the 5th day of ramadhan. so far its been an uneventful one. no missed days. typical nights.

this year is different when compared to previous ramadhan. first time that i am actually working. feeling is different. usually i just go to class and then go back and sleep. but this time i have to sit from 8:30am to 5:00pm. its been 5 days and so far so good. workload has not been bad and there isn't much pressure or urgency in things yet so i can say i am handling things well. no urges to smoke. that was the part that i was hoping i can cope with. but so far so good. its the end of the work week so i can safely say 1 down, 4 to go.

Mustard Plug - What you say

2008-09-05T05:50:00.000+08:00

This time I can't pretend
I never thought that it would end
I might have gave the wrong impression
Will it ever be the same again?
Will it ever be the same again?
When you look to your new friends
Do you remember where we've been?
Those times you can't forget
You can't be over it yet

I can't stay, anyway,
I know you wanted me to say, that today, it is over

What you say
What you don't say
It doesn't matter to me
Cause you'll never believe in me anyway

You know I really can't pretend
Were we ever really friends?
Or just waiting around together
So I could let you down again
So I could let you down again
I guess we never really said
That this would be the end
I'm just waiting for an answer
So we know what this all meant

What you say
(I yell out loud at a brick wall)
What you don't say
(You yell back loud with your withdrawal)
It doesn't matter to me
(It makes no difference to me now)
Cause you'll never believe in me anyway
(It makes no difference cuz time moved on)

1078 KM

2008-08-11T12:34:00.000+08:00

for those who are wondering, that is how much travelling me and the guys did to Kuala Besut and back on our way to Perhentian Island.

The trip was amazing. I had so much fun. I just want to say thank you to Nik, Naz, Fazly, Amin, Lish, Yoi, Hadiid, Crip and Cobaltte for making the trip so enjoyable.

the sea was crystal clear, the beaches was beatiful. the weather was too hot some 10% of the time, but it was still perfect.

will post up some pics later here and on FB.

edit : pic up on FB.

here are some pics.

pic quality re sized to save space.

surrender

2008-08-01T11:03:00.000+08:00

dropkick murphys - surrender

I was at my weakest state
And you kept me pushing on
You gave me something to believe in
And it keeps me standing strong
These lessons that I've learned
These things I'll carry on
And when you're gone I'll honor you
Each day, however long

This glimmer of hope was never enough
To guide me through the darkness like a diamond
In the rough
I held out for and I received
A pain that never left with no reprieve
Like a toast at a table where resentments run free
There can't be any truth where there's no honesty

Like an apple from the tree
you were lock jawed in your ways
A reminder of myself in those long forgotten days
Thought you'd stayed off my path
But I just couldn't see that the blood that's in your veins
Is the same that runs through me

This glimmer of hope was never enough
To guide me through the darkness like a diamond
In the rough
I held out for and I received
A pain that never left with no reprieve
Like a toast at a table where resentments run free
There can't be any truth where there's no honesty

I had it all but lost my faith
And then you lead me to it
Today I'll carry on
I had it all but lost my faith
And now I've renewed it
These things I'll carry on

that song above have stuck a chord with me these past few days. really awesome song. really good meaning behind it. lots of people come up to mind when i listen to that song. people that have inspired me through out my life. so to all that have pushed me on, became my pillar, became my glimmer of hope. thank you.

-----------------------------------------

these past few days have been really........don't really know hope to describe it, yet..........well, sort of like a roller coaster. high points, low point. feeling awkward, feeling comfortable, feeling lost, feeling secure etc etc. weird. really confusing and i can't pin point it to one thing yet or more yet. its just comes and goes as it pleases.

anyways, lets move on. have you ever felt that you need to say something to someone to make things better? even by one tiny bit? well, actually its not really a situation that you need to say, but you have to say something. i have always thought i had that ability to do just that. turns out that i only can do that when the situation is not really bad and when a little humor can make up for anything that was said or not said.

but when it really matters, it doesn't matter how many letters, words or sentences that come up to mind, its just never ever come out the way you want it to go or come out the way it needed to and it ends up making the conversation really awkward, which is really bad.

1 month went by....

2008-07-22T09:51:00.000+08:00

hehe, its been quite some time and there has not been a single update here.. but still, considering the last few attemps to blogging i made before, this is quite awesome. well, 1 post a year is not really a big yard-stick to beat.

well, the end of june was a busy period for me at work. lots of things to do, lots of loose ends to tie down. but overall it was a fun experiance.

zura is now back in melaka after successfully completing her attachment in kajang since january. so it will be harder to meet her in the coming months. :(

The UK kids are back. so futsal and cybercafe s back :) (hurts the pocket though)

Mondays now have officially become a day to look forward to as TOPGEAR has returned. so a new routine has emerged at home where i wake up early monday morning to start downloading the episode. after the usual lepak sessio nat mosin after work, its topgear time.

shaz went to brisbane for a couple of weeks, ang got me a copy of Less Than Jake's GNV FLA album. i owe him for life.

which brings us to last weekend. an old friend had her wedding reception. so i just wanna say congrats to Sarah and Syed for tying the knot. hope that they will live happily ever after.
we reception was grand, held at the Putrajaya Lake Club. nice weather, nice view, awesome turnout. met lots of people i have not seen for almost 5 years. maybe even more.

"some say that after sex, he bites the heads of his mates off.
and that he stopped binge drinking now that its £1.18 a litre,
all we know, is he is called the stig"

updates..

2008-06-19T11:34:00.000+08:00

hmm.. nothing much has been happening these past few weeks, all is quiet on all fronts so to speak. highlights could include less than jake's new album called GNV FLA.

Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun

2008-05-07T12:00:00.000+08:00

life has pretty much been a mundane day in day out flow. go to work, go home, go meet friend and go to sleep. rinse and repeat.

been a little tired but hey, i'll survive. there have been highlights through out the whole time of my last update till now. lets recap.

been in some sort of financial strain now, but the plus side of this is that little by little my car is starting to get better.

firstly is the much needed absorber change. that was about 2 or 3 weeks ago on a very nice saturday afternoon. went all the way to sunway to had get it done. 2 hrs (maybe) and half my paycheck later, its done. and i must say, it was worth every penny.

last weekend i joined a futsal tournament held in Padang Seroja UiTM Shah Alam in conjunction with the APACS' (Association of Professional Accounting Students) sports day. It was a good outing. met a lot of people that i haven't seen for quite a while. managed to catch up with some of them. had a good time.

This coming weekend is the next phase in my Fix-car-o-rama. Then plan is to get a new set of tyres (thats another half of my paycheck). Thankfully mama decided to pay half of it for me. The weekend after that is the final stage of the repairs, with my car getting a much needed oil change and a new clutch (another nice chunk out of my paycheck).

Ouch, but at the end of the day, it is worth it.

p/s : nana : there you go.

Flogging Molly - Don't Let Me Die

2008-04-23T07:06:00.000+08:00

I walk these streets where my soulless feet
Haunt the ground where it was I once tread
On Grafton's Arcade pours the rich commerce rain
Though the voices I no longer hear speak
Heaven's to blame so on that I'll abstain
Best clean the church from my cracked fingernail
But don't let me die still wondering
What it was I left behind

From God's golden plate begrudges they eat
Till their belly's burst ignorance bliss
Never they roam a wander less home
Is as far as their sorry eye sees
Give me a rusty ol' goat well trampled and soaked
Until these ashes and blood mingle deep
But don't let me die still wondering
What it was I left behind

Though I've been that face before
Slammed every open door
Squandered once scattered beliefs
So when the waves come crashin' in
I'll swim as the ocean swims
Out with the morning tide
Then back for my tea

So I'll do as I please like the well-tempered breeze
Blowin' which way I see fit
I'll grey with the clay seven days till the day
When they throw me on the potter's scrap heap
But take my advice; you'll have to bury me twice
Cause the first time I won't rest easily
But don't let die still wondering
What it was I left behind

So don't let die still wondering
What it was I left behind
I want a race well run ahead of the gun
With a dance before the far finish line
So no life long regrets, only well feathered steps
Until these shoes I can longer shine
But don't let me die still wanderin'
For the love I left behind

team building

2008-04-15T12:29:00.000+08:00

last weekend i had to go for a team building camp organized by Mesiniaga's HR dept. Dreaded the thought. god know how many ways i thought of to escape, but to no avail. i even had to miss out on a convoy trip to PD and Melaka with the guys..

anyways, overall, i had lots of fun there. which is a surprise to me, and to most of the participants that went there. but it could have been a lot better i guess.

anyways, here are some pictures from the event.

all of us

team pagong

team ogakor

Sanity company

Team Pagong after Absorbing a few new members

updates on imtyaz

2008-04-03T15:04:00.000+08:00

after we left the hospital that sunday, he was put through surgery. they manage to stitch up the wound without needing skin graft.

today, he is already discharged from the hospital. going to go see him tomorrow.

thank god

2008-04-01T00:30:00.000+08:00

yesterday, at around 6pm, my friend, imtyaz was involved in a car accident. he was driving with his little brother on the way to cheras to drop his brother off at his school. the accident happened on the kirinchi link off-ramp into federal highway right next to telekom tower.

the road was wet and he lost control the car and crashed into the concrete divider. on impact, the car rolled over 3 times before stopping on the right side up. the roof on the driver side caved in a little.

thankfully, both of them were wearing seatbelts. imtyaz lost a portion of his scalp due to the roof caving in. his brother on the other hand was unhurt. a car stopped by and rushed him to the hospital (whoever it was, thank you so much for being such a good samaritan. your quick action might have saved my friend from more condition, heavy blood loss etc. so again thank you.)

first to find out was ashaari who informed me, shaz, bear and fazly. by 7 most of us were already at pantai medical centre.

thank god everything will turn out fine.

one weird thing about the accident is that the airbags DID NOT deploy. proton wil ldefinately hear something about this.

dedicated to Kemuri

2008-03-30T06:23:00.000+08:00

Kemuri is a ska punk band from japan. they have been around for a quite sometime, until recently in december 2007 they announced that they are parting ways after completing thier final tour, leaving behind 8 full lengths albums and the legacy of PMA. PMA is a song from their 2nd album "77 days". i have to admit even though i have never heard all of their songs, this band have in a way impacted my life and how i choose to think.

"PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)"
Everything seems so far away,
Everything is going wrong you know...
Too many troubles, nothin' but pain in your heart,
Almost hate things you love...

Oh, oh, let's go find our way
Oh, oh, with our very weak broken hearts, still
Oh, oh, we must have pride not strength
Oh, oh, live with a positive mental attitude!

Complain and blamin' someone else,
Do you know it's gonna come back to you!
So many problems, so much hate in this world,
Who is gonna wake up first?

Oh, oh, let's go find our way
Oh, oh, with our very weak broken hearts, still
Oh, oh, we must have pride not strength
Oh, oh, live with a positive mental attitude!

Now you know what to do
Look at me, don't look down
Hold my hand, hold it tight!

Oh, oh, let's go find our way
Oh, oh, with our very weak broken hearts, still
Oh, oh, we must have pride not strength
Oh, oh, live with a positive mental attitude!

Oh, oh, live with a positive mental attitude!
Oh, oh, live with a positive mental attitude!

hunger

2008-03-30T06:10:00.000+08:00

so hungry. but there is no food here. 2 more hours till i get off work. maybe less. depends on my mood. its not like there is much to do here anyways since the system is f*cked.

its a god damned saturday! ah well, better than doing nothing at home i guess.

i can hear thunder outside. hope if it does rain, it wont be pouring for long. i want to get home.

headache

2008-03-25T06:59:00.000+08:00

man..what a day. so much to do but so little done.
why can't they brief me properly before letting me do something?

funny link

2008-03-07T08:37:00.000+08:00

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

read it..its funny..

Plague Of Happiness '08 Kawan Tour

2008-03-04T03:48:00.000+08:00

went to the Plague of happiness '08 kawan tour yesterday with shaz.

the tour is to promote Plague of Happiness' (POH) and Full Pledge Munkees' (FPM) new album.
yesterday wasthe first stop for the tour at MCPA hall in KL. accompanying POH and FPM were 5 other bands, they are Decma and the could have beens, KLPHQ, Novelea, The Otherside Orchestra and Meet Uncle Hussain.

while the gig had a slow start, the ending was teriffic. POH played a very-very energetic 15 song set. had loads of fun. props to the guys and for the organizers.

23rd birthday and 50th post..

2008-03-01T02:17:00.000+08:00

turned 23 yesterday. to be frank, i don't feel any different. well, i guess its how its suppose to be. how can 1 day change how you feel, what you think, change your perspective. so i will still be the same me as i was 2 days ago. as someone mentioned before, a birthday is a day to say "hey, you survived another year and are not dead....YET"

haha. well, here i would like to just say thank you for all those wishes. special mention goes to nana for being the first to wish me in Auckland timezone. as for malaysian timezone, amin is the first.

oh yeah, can't wait for sunday. Plague of happiness!

well, back to work i go :)

talk about consistency.....

2008-02-22T07:55:00.000+08:00

well, its already thrusday. results came out on monday. well, as usual i passed 1 paper. talk about consistency yeah? anyways, i was expecting to fail f7 but definately not f8. got me 42 for f7 and 46 for f8. so close yet so far. i guess i'll try again soon the next round.

its weird that i didn't feel sad when i got to know my result, i guess i have gotten used to it already. well, at least its not causing me too much anguish that i can't do anything else.

so, enjoy this chorus from streetlight manifesto.

" So what will you do when they call your name and you're not ready to go?
Everyone will stare at you and tell you what you know
That you're in too deep and you can't quite keep your secrets, one and all
We might just make it after all, on our own
We might just make it after all"

Battlestations!

2008-02-16T08:21:00.000+08:00

fun game on facebook that i have been playing for quite some time now. try it. the link here.

slow start..

2008-02-12T06:51:00.000+08:00

had a 5 day weekend. to day is monday and it is a very slow day. compared to the stuff i did over the long CNY weekend, today is so unproductive (is that a word?). so sleepy, so bored, so........

darkness then covers the land...

2008-02-05T12:02:00.000+08:00

its been almost a week since the studio closed down. i have to say i am still not adjusting.

went out yesterday to maulana before futsal. saw owish there. he was alone so i joined him at his table and we talked about the studio and how it has manage to fill in any gap in our activities all the time. its sad. no more home away from home.

anyways, work has been good. pretty much routine stuff day in and day out. other than being sleepy, i can say it good.

the warriors code by dropkick murphys

2008-01-30T07:29:00.000+08:00

You're the fighter you've got the fire
The spirit of a warrior, the champion's heart
You fight for your life because the fighter never quits
You make the most of the hand you're dealt
Because the quitter never wins
No!

You were born to box in a city that's seen their share
Mello, Ryan, Carney, among them your photo proudly hangs there
Above the bar in the Gaelic Club
They tell the story of a throwback
With the heart of a lion
They salute your glory

It's another murderous right
Another left hook from hell
A bloody war on the boardwalk
And the kid from Lowell rises to the bell

[Chorus:]
Micky
It's a warrior's code
Micky
He's got the warrior's soul

[Chorus]

"the view is very different here...."

2008-01-29T16:15:00.000+08:00

that is all i can say.. its surreal.. i have never seen the place so empty.. 2 more days to go before it all officialy ends.. i just hope the bbq planned will be a success.. great fun it will be..

the end of and era...

2008-01-26T14:42:00.000+08:00

starting from sunday, a great era is ending for derschatten studio in ttdi. the studio that have been open since 2002, the studio that has become a big part in many peoples lives, a shelter a numerous people on numerous occasions is finally going to closed its doors for good.

imran decided to close the studio because of a disagreement with the land lard a few months ago and has waited untill his contract ends this February before closing down, but a certain event has caused him to hastened the move to the end of january.

i have had a lot of good memories in that studio. all the jamming sessons since late 2002 until now, all the friends i met and made there, the time spent just bumming around, watching movies will always remain a big part of my life. i just can't imagine how it will be without that place.

maulana will definately lose a percentage of its customers as a lot of people who goes there for food and drinks are customers of the studio.

imran says there will be a derschatten part 2, but it will be a long time before it will be up and running. i guess we all just have to wait and see.

to imran and the studio, i wish you thank you for everything.

a week..

2008-01-21T00:22:00.000+08:00

so its been a week since i started my new job. have not been doing much at work as they have just finished finalizing 2007's account and are only starting to process 2008 orders. so i have been bumming at work so far. nothing to write home about, and nothing to complain about.

got my first paycheck already. that was a surprise since i expected to get my paycheck in February. its a good surprise and again i'm not complaining.

new line...

2008-01-12T15:00:00.000+08:00

hmm. after weeks and months of just saying it, i finally got a job. i'm at work actually. nothing much to do on the fist day except filling up the forms and just getting to know the people.

i'm working at Mesiniaga, an IT comapny dealing with mostly suppling IBM computers and servers to thier customers. i am a purchaser for the company. this should be fun. :)

new year

2008-01-02T12:18:00.000+08:00

goodbye 2007 and welcome 2008...

what an interesting year 2007 had been personally and generally.. but that is not what this post is about. it's more of a welcome to 2008..

well, this year i decided to not have a resolution. why? it's because every year for the past 4 years have been the same. quit smoking. and so far it has never come true. so i'm not going to disappoint anyone or myself by trying to promise to quit smoking again. there are so many things i want to do and try to achieve this year so i will not be occupied with a stupid new years resolution.

anyways, 2008 started with a us getting showered with coke and ginger beer. didn't expect that to happen. but a fun experience it was. followed closely with the normal lepak maulana session and then off to bed. waking up only at 4pm. haha. what a wonderful start to the year.

hectic

2007-12-27T15:45:00.000+08:00

these past few days have been quite hectic for me and my family. last weekend was my elder sister's wedding. so the whole day saturday was spent at the hall where the wedding was held, which was for the bride side. the akad nikah was done at masjid at-taqwa on saturday morning. all went well and the whole thing was done with just 1 try. good job groom for not panicking. after that we all moved over to Bakti for the reception.

sunday was the groom side and all festivities was held at the groom's house in sg penchala. very nice reception there too. turn out was good for both and everyone seemed to be happy with how things went.

monday i went to KL to look for plague of happiness's album but couldn't find it anywhere. came back home and tried contacting the band and 1 of its member.

managed to set a meeting with azmal, the saxophonist for the band on tuesday afternoon. so i went to KL again and met the guy. finally got my hands on the CD. the CD is good :)

today i followed fazly to PD. he had some work to do. the journey was smooth. nothing unexpected happened. managed to test my AA battery powered portable handphone charger, surprised that it worked that well.

thats all for now.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha

2007-12-20T17:40:00.000+08:00

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha to everyone :)

i hate titles..

2007-12-19T18:55:00.000+08:00

i was at the 21th birthday party of an old friend today. been a while since i last met her or even talked to her. so naturally i was really surprised to get invited. anyway, the party was nice. lots of people was there and it was fun. it started off a little awkward for me because when i stepped into the place (Bora Asmara Restaurant, Sg Penchala) and looked around, there wasn't even 1 familiar face there. took me a while to find some people i actually know. hehe.

anyway, while at the party i received a phone call from a friend. i knew something was wrong when i heard him say hello. so i went to a quiet spot outside and talked to him. he told me he had broken up with his girlfriend of a few years just moments ago. they were having problems but they still love each other. but in the end they decided to end the relationship before both of them get hurt even more. they had mutually decided that if or when they can deal with their problems in a more mature and reasonable way they would try again. i'm sad for both of them as i know they both love each other a lot. its a shame really. he sounded sad.

i wish both of them the best in all their endeavors.

"You had a love and that love had you
And nothing mattered, you were fine
And some will complain, they're just bitter, what a shame
They know that loving and losing is better than nothing at all"

Somewhere in the Between

waiting..

2007-12-17T18:34:00.000+08:00

quoting (and editing) from puma's world cup ad:
"vacation is good!"

did pretty much nothing since i finished my exams. but i bet things will start to get busy with my sister's wedding coming next weekend.

currently waiting for 24th december as that is the date of the official release of plague of happiness's (link) new album. can't wait to hear it. also, national treasure 2 is coming on the the 20th.

done!

2007-12-13T15:31:00.000+08:00

yeay! exams are over!

crap

2007-12-05T12:16:00.000+08:00

tomorrow is the first day of my examination. hopefully what i have read in the past few days will help me answer the questions. wish me luck :)

4 years and counting..

2007-12-02T12:15:00.000+08:00

it has been 4 years since i entered into my relationship with zura. 4 short years. it still feels weird that it has been that long. it feels like its only been a few months. heh, whatever it is, i'm grateful that even after 4 years we are still together.

thinking back to those early days, i can see that there have been many changes that we have gone through but in a way we are the same. many things that we used to do together have been replaced with new things. i still remember the miss calling marathons, i would wake up to my handphone saying i have 50, 60, 70 missed calls. then i would give you miss calls. haha. later it was replaced with voice sms and now mms.

the past year and a half have brought a lot of change. we used to be together all the time when we were in perak. but now since you have futhered your studies in melaka, we don't get to see much of each other, but the distance never got between us. and i am once again thankful for that.
well, just want to say happy 4th anniversary sayang.

procrastination rocks..

2007-12-01T23:58:00.000+08:00

i dont want to study so i'll do this instead :)

INSTRUCTION :
a) Bold the statements that are true to you.
b) Italicize the statements that you WISH are true.
c) Leave the fibs alone.

Then, stab 3 people to do the same test...

1) I miss somebody right now.
2) I do not watch tv these days.
3) I wear glasses or contact lenses.
4) I love to play video games.
5) I have tried marijuana.
6) I have been in a threesome.
7) I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
8) I have changed mentally over the last year.
9) I curse.
10) I’m totally smart.
11) I’ve broken someone’s bones.
12) I’m paranoid sometimes.
13) I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
14) I need money right now.
15) I love sushi.
16) I talk really, really fast.
17) I have long hair.
18) I have lost money in Las Vegas.
19) I have at least one sibling.
20) I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
21) I couldn’t survive without Caller ID.
22) I like the way I look.
23) I am usually pessimistic.
24) I have a lot of mood swings.
25) I have a hidden talent.
26) I’m always hyper.
27) I have a lot of friends.
28) I have pecked someone of the same sex.
29) I enjoy talking on the phone.
30) I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
31) I love to shop.
32) Enjoy window shopping.
33) I would rather shop than eat.
34) I don’t hate anyone.
35) I’m a pretty good dancer.
36) I’m completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
37) I have a cell phone.
38) I believe in God.
39) I am an adrenaline junkie.
40) I watch MTV on a daily basis.
41) I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
42) I’ve rejected someone before.
43) I want to have children in the future.
44) I have changed a diaper before.
45) I’ve called the cops on a friend before.
46) I’m not allergic to anything.
47) I have a lot to learn.
48) I’m shy around members of the opposite sex.
49) I have made a move on a friends’ significant other or crush in the past.
50) I have tried alcohol before.
51) I own the South Park movie.
52) I would die for my best friend.
53) I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza.
54) I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
55) I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all.
56) Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
57) I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it.
58) I am happy at this moment!
59) I’m obsessed with girls/guys.
60) I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I’ve ever met.
61) I study for tests most of the time.
62) I am comfortable with who I am right now.
63) I have more than just my ears pierced.
64) I walk barefoot wherever I can.
65) I have jumped off a bridge. (jetty to be exact)
66) I love sea turtles.
67) I spend ridiculous money on makeup.
68) Plan on achieving a major goal & dream.
69) I’m proficient in a musical instrument.
70) I hate office jobs.
71) I love sci-fi movies.
72) I think water rules.
73) I went college out of state.
74) I like sausages.
75) I love kisses.
76) I fall for the worst people.
77) I adore bright colours.
78) I can’t live without black eyeliner.
79) I don’t know why the hell I just did this stupid thing.
80) I usually like covers better than originals.
81) I can pick up things with my toes.
82) I can whistle.
83) I can move my tongue in waves, much like a snake’s slither.
84) I have ridden/owned a horse.
85) I still have every journal I’ve written in.
86) I can’t stick to a diet.
87) I talk in my sleep.
88) I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.
89) I have jazz in my blood.
90) Climbing trees is a brilliant past-time.
91) I wear a toe ring.
92) I can’t stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
93) I am a caffeine junkie.
94) I cosplay or know what cosplaying is.
95) I have been to over 15 conventions.
96) I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical the better.
97) I’m an artist.
98) I only clean my room when necessary.
99) I like a person of the same sex.

a trip down memory lane..

2007-11-29T18:30:00.000+08:00

today i went on a small road trip. been a while since i went anywhere with my friends.. today the destination was Seri Manjung. our objective, go and accompany fazly to the said destination and wait for him while he did his work.

the original plan was to leave ttdi at 9. all fazly had to do was to pick up hadiid, arip and me before leaving and i will do all the driving from there on. but, as all economist would say, caterus paribus, which by the way means "everything else remains equal" and the face that we are malays, we actually left ttdi at around 10.

first pit stop of the day came early as we stopped for a bite to eat at rawang rest stop. fazly drove from ttdi to rawang and after that i took over. the road was horrible as most parts of the highway was closed down to 1 single lane from rawang to slim river. it was painfully slow. the road opened up from slim river onwards and that is where i had the opportunity to put my foot down. ther was no more pitstops until we reached the town of gopeng after exiting the highway. we stopped by the shell at the town to buy some drink and snacks.

from there went straight to majung. along the way, i became the local tour guide as we passed kellie's castle, the town of batu gajah, UTP, UiTM perak (which is my former home away from home for 3 years), the town of bota, air tawar and sitiawan before finally reaching the hospital where fazly had to do his work.

we dropped fazly off at the storage department and parked under a tree where the 3 of us slept for a short while. arip dreamt that he got kicked while sleeping, even though he did not fall asleep for too long. we eventually got bored and decided to go back to the store and see fazly in action. which was pretty much looking at him looking at the computer.

fazly finished work at 4 and we got in the car and headed straight to lumut. lumut is a small town that served as the port for our royal navy and a jetty for tourist who wants to go to pankor island. we didn't stay long in lumut. just took some pictures and left. from lumut we headed straight back to sri iskandar(where the UiTM is) to have a bite to eat. after the meal we stopped by UTP and its beautiful mosque to pray, and headed back home the way we came.

its been a while since i went that far up from my campus. a lot of things have change since those days of roaming up and down the ipoh-lumut freeway. the last i went there was a bout a year ago and it was at night. its hard to appreciate how much things have changed in the time i left when its dark, so todays little trip has showed me how things can easily change in a short time

Streetlight Manifesto - The Receiving End Of It All

2007-11-28T11:57:00.000+08:00

figured it shouldn't be called soundtrack of my life without anything related to music on it. so here's one:

So Marigold, my love, you've had too much to drink
And I need not remind you, our discount tickets for this sinking ship
Take-backs and sweet regrets, that's all that we have left
No one is looking out for anyone but number one

One to one, two to dance, we all get our sweet romance
Though sour grapes will turn to wine its all just vinegar with time
And oh, I want to know, we all want to know
How can anybody treat somebody so?

She said it hurts too much
I said it will never hurt enough
No one will ever see these cuts
No one will ever call this bluff
But that's just the way that it goes

And when he left us he said, "It's not so bad"
That motherfucker he took everything we had
And when I'm thinking back, I'm counting all the ways
Nobody helped us so we dreamt of better days
And we sang: "Yeah that's just the way that it goes"

Yeah, we used to be in love (my love!), but now we're just in like
And we broke all our promises and baby that ain't right
Because you don't know what it's like to lose it all
Take it back, take it back because you don't know what it's like
to be on the receiving end of it all

No! no! You were not on the receiving end of it all [4x]

You beg and plead, but no one here can save you
Why would they try when they can't quite save themselves?

So Marigold, someday we'll have to write a script
But I won't stop denying ashamed of all the selfish things we did
Dropped out of every single friendship that you had
They nearly loved you, but you never could have loved somebody back

Tell me of your sorrows; tell me everything from the start
I'd like to do my part to help a friend in need
I said you could come to me, but when you needed someone most, I wasn't there,
I wasn't even...

She said it hurts too much
I said it will never hurt enough
No one will ever see these cuts
No one will ever call this bluff
But that's just the way that it goes

And when he left us he said, "It's not so bad"
That motherfucker he took everything we had
And when I'm thinking back, I'm counting all the ways
Nobody helped us so we dreamt of better days
And we sang: "Yeah that's just the way that it goes"

Yeah, we used to be in love (my love!), but now we're just in like
And we broke all our promises and baby that ain't right
Because you don't know what it's like to lose it all
Take it back, take it back because you don't know what it's like
to be on the receiving end of it all

No! no! You were not on the receiving end of it all [4x]

You beg and plead, but no one here can save you
Why would they try when they can't quite save themselves?

Yeah, we used to be in love (my love!), but now we're just in like
And we broke all our promises and baby that ain't right
Because you don't know what it's like to lose it all
Take it back, take it back because you don't know what it's like
to be on the receiving end of it all

No! no! You were not on the receiving end of it all [4x]

You beg and plead, but no one here can save you
Why would they try when they can't quite save themselves?

2007-11-26T19:48:00.000+08:00

hmm.. sitting here at 3.40 in the morning, can't sleep. listening to saves the day - nightingale now.i hate these seemingly slow moving nights. it makes me think about where i am now in my life and where it is headed. the reality is that time is moving fast now and i'm feeling left behind. there is something that i didn't do right somewhere and have left me far from where i thought i should be.

well, enough of that. a few days back i made a decision to work. not right away, but in january. this coming december will be a very hectic month with my exams coming, then followed closely with my eldest sister's wedding. then a couple of weeks to go before i start working. hopefully i get the job. i just need to take some time off to regroup and rethink. the financial benefit is just a plus side :).

its funny but what i just wrote in the first and 2nd paragraph reminds me of a streetlight manifesto song called "one foot on the gas, and one foot in the grave". on one hand i feel unmotivated and on the other i can't wait to move forward.

and we've got one foot on the gas and one foot in the grave
everyone was laughing when we said we have it made......

Hitman

2007-11-24T12:30:00.000+08:00

saw hitman just now. nice movie. have to download it later to watch again.

tired...

2007-11-20T05:43:00.000+08:00

been really tired these past few days, weeks, months.. not physically, but mentally. been thinking a lot about what i should do in the future. i see my friend who are working and they all look like they are enjoying themselves, even when they say they are not. they get to experience new things everyday, not to mention the paycheck at the end of the month. i'm tired of studying. i'm bored of it. i want to move on with the next phase of my life but its hard to do it with just a diploma, especially in the accountancy field. i'm just so tired......

wonders

2007-11-19T08:12:00.000+08:00

just realised today that i am extremely lucky. lucky to have what i have and lucky to be here....

something i found on last.fm

2007-10-19T19:32:00.000+08:00

Open up your music player. Put it on shuffle. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. Write that song name down.

If someone says "Is this okay?" you say:
three simple words

How would you describe yourself?
all wrapped up

What do you like in a guy/girl?
cambodia

How do you feel today?
threesome

What is your life's purpose?
hell looks a lot like LA

What is your motto?
cheer up

What do your friends think of you?
out of my league

What do you think of your parents?
bad town

What do you think about very often?
no future no hope

What is your wedding day going to be like?
higher

What do you think of your best friend?
let her go

What do you think of the person you like?
gangster

What is your life story?
is this thing on?

What do you want to be when you grow up?
doppelganger

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
you think it's a joke

What will you dance to at your wedding?
tuckered out

What will they play at your funeral?
poem

What is your hobby/interest?
pointless grenade

What is your biggest fear?
mixology of tom collins

What is your biggest secret?
a little doubt goes a long way

What do you think of your friends?
son of dick

What is the worst thing about life?
that'll be the day

What is the best thing about life?
suggestions

What is the best thing about YOUR life?
coathanger jacket

2nd day of raya

2007-10-15T16:34:00.000+08:00

so far raya has been the normal uneventful string of lazy days it has always been. but not tonight, tonight, on the 2nd day of raya (well, technically 3rd morning of raya), me, lish, im, swen, amin, lan and fazly embarked on a special mission, a covert one so to speak.

it all began when swen came to maulana saying he has a stash of firecrackers. so we all decided no to waste anymore time and head over to padang sulaiman "bring the noise". after a while we decided to head down to the jogging park a.k.a tasik instead. we went over to jalan datuk sulaiman 5 and then slowly walked around the outer rim of the jogging park while every now and then lighting up and throwing a firecracker into the bushes. man, the sound was extremely loud. mainly because of the echo the surrounding hills provided.

when we reached the other side of the park, near the suspended bridge, we decided to go down and cut through the park and head back to the gate we entered the park from, that way we can avoid any security guard that came by.

so we crossed the small river in the middle of the park and headed uphill. i decided to light 2 firecracker into 2 seperate dustbins and 1 more in the drain. after the last one in the drain exploded, we heard what we had rally dreaded. it was loud and clear. the sound of the engine kick starting and the the throttle being engaged. we ran all started running away but after a very short while i was already out of breath, so i walked slowly beside lan who had already stopped running. swen was walking too, slightly in front of me and lan when the motorcycle came up and overtook all 3 of us. mean while the rest of the gang had already reached the gate and was out of the park. the 2 guards on the motorcycle stopped at the gate and waited for us there. swen reached the place first and was bombarded with a bunch of question which he didn't really answer. when me and lan reached him, all 3 of us just walked away from the guard.

the guard, while muttering something to his friend closed the gate and rode away.

man, its been a while since we did anything like that. that was fun :)

here is the picture of the 7 wanted criminals

selamat hari raya :)

2007-10-13T22:52:00.000+08:00

selamat hari raya to all. maaf zahir batin :)

nfi what to put here

2007-10-09T17:37:00.000+08:00

today's lepak session brought me to McD Mutiara Damansara with nik, wan, crip, lan, hadiid, nadia and lish.

well, the 8 of us somehow started talking about the plces around us and what have changed since we first remembered the place. man, have things changed. it feels like a blink of an eye. i guess what imran said about time moving faster now is true. soon we all will have to face the real world.

anyways, today is fazly's birthday. so happy birthday bro :)
enjoy your day :)

hmmmm..

2007-10-09T01:24:00.000+08:00

man, i am soo sleepy.. i just got back from class.. today is the last day of class before raya holidays. thank god. now i have time to just relax for almost 2 weeks..

still trying to learn how to make noises using the trombone. managed to play a few notes the other day.

PAINTBALL!!!!

2007-09-04T10:08:00.000+08:00

yesterday me and a bunch of guys went to play paintball. for most of us, it was our first time. only 2 guys(if i'm not mistaken) have played before. so most of us didn't really know what to expect.

the experience to me was awesome. we really had loads of fun there. there was 2 type of games we play. the first was Capture the Flag: Centre Flag. which we played 2 rounds of, and the other was Capture the Flag: Base Flag, which we also played 2 rounds of.

so yeah, i hope i get a chance to play again sometime soon. can't wait.

i'll probably put up some pictures of that day when i get them later.

update: 16th sept 2007 (been a while, i know.)

pics!

been a while

2007-08-28T05:14:00.000+08:00

i haven't posted in a while. mainly because i was mostly not at home and when i was, little time was spent in front of the pc. so i guess here is what had happened in the past 2 weeks.

firstly, i got my second semester result last week on the 21st. i passed 1 paper, Information System(IS) and failed 2 others, Managing People(MP) and the other one is Financial Management and Control(FMC) . i had expected to fail MP but i totally did not expect having to repeat my FMC paper. well, its really sad but i have to move on and keep doing what i'm doing now. what else is there for me to do, right? we should not dwell on the past.

some of my friends finally got me addicted to Command and Conquer: Generals. been playing a lot of it during last weeks semester break at the cyber cafe. its fun and fast paced. so a lot of nights and a lot of cash has been spent playing it. thats all i'm going to say about that.

last saturday, the 25th, imtyaz had his convocation ceremony. i went there with ashaari. there were so many people but, as raqib would have put it, there were not many eye-candy(if you know what i mean). hehe. the weather was good, wasn't that hot. there was a hint of rain for a while but it passed on without letting out its fury. so i guess i'm thankful for that. imtyaz seemed happy on that day. his whole family was there.

just got back from class today. my evening class got cancelled. my lecturer kid is sick. hope he/she is fine.

thats all for this post i guess.

update!

2007-08-17T10:44:00.000+08:00

should have put this up a few days ago. but i've just been busy with classes and stuff. got my zippo fixed. cost me 48 bucks(well didn't really cost me but cost my girlfriend). lol. anyway, at least its a alive and kicking

the all-spark

2007-08-12T15:57:00.000+08:00

crap. thats all i can say. well, not really. but it sucks man. i can't believe my zippo is destroyed(so to speak) :( . hopefully i can find some place that can fix it. i don't really wanna buy a new one since that one is very special. wonder if any of the sops in Central Market has a zippo repair shop and is open on sunday. i really wanna get it fixed. if not i will get me a new one tomorrow. had that zippo for almost 1 year and 6 months. so i guess it was about time something happened to it. ah well.

and we are on air...

2007-08-08T11:22:00.000+08:00

its here! it's really here.
got my i.tech Clip R35 bluetooth stereo handsfree today.
tested it and it seem to work well. so yeah, finally its here :)

simpsons update

2007-07-29T04:13:00.000+08:00

saw the simpsons on friday. yeay! it is a good movie, but could have been longer though. it felt short but the movie plot and pace is still good. overall, i'm happy with it :). big ups to the people involved in making the movie.

THE SIMPSONS!!!!

2007-07-26T06:00:00.000+08:00

Got tickets for the show on friday, all 16 of them. finally its here :) can wait to see it..

borrowing from a band's name:

and you'll know us by the trail of tickets.....

now to collect the rest of the cash.

a distributer and a game of pool...

2007-07-20T04:47:00.000+08:00

last tuesday the weirdest thing happened. my dad was going out. so he got into his car and tried starting it. nothing happened. he was running late so he decided to take my car instead and deal with his car later that day. that was in the morning. i woke up around 11am that day and was told about the car. so i tried starting it and the same thing happened. so i "pop"-ed the hood and started to check if any cables/wires was disconnected. after just a few seconds looking at the engine, i saw that something was missing. it was the distributer. the distributer is a part of the engine that provides the spark plugs the electrical current to burn the fuel. after close checking, it was apparent that the distributer was stolen. all the cables connected to it was carefully disconnected and the bolts that tied it down to the engine was in perfect condition. it cost rm300 to get it fixed, and the replacement wasn't even brand new. to who ever that took the distributer, i hope you are enjoying it you SOB!

wednesday began as usual, but turned into a quite fun day. went to class as usual and after class, the nandos geng(and 2 others) went to ou to have lunch. after lunch, me and razi decided to play a few round of pool. while playing, i jokingly said "loser pays". so we played a race to 5. the end score was 5-3 to my favour. i never thought i could win at pool against razi. so it was good :)

thats all for now i guess

recap of the week

2007-07-13T08:57:00.000+08:00

wow. classes really make the time fly. its already thursday. that means that all my classes are done for the week. yeay!

Ye Oldee Fable, then and now!

2007-07-11T11:15:00.000+08:00

The Ant and the Grasshopper

THEN:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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NOW:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be! In a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Al Sharpton stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Al then has the group kneel down to pray for a successful boycott against the ant.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, ha ving nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is
taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.

ITS ALIVE!!!!

2007-07-10T16:24:00.000+08:00

got my phone back today. its alive! yeay! cost me rm150 bucks. but at least i can use it. nothing was missing, which is a plus point.

long weekend...

2007-07-09T02:30:00.000+08:00

the past 4 days have been really hectic. thursday i went to melacca to send zura for her registration. left home at 7 am and only came back at 7 pm. was tired but went out again at 10 to get a bite to eat since there was nothing interesting to eat at home.

friday was a bit less hectic. did pretty much nothing until friday prayers. as usual, after friday prayers is the routine chill out session at 'pucuk paku' with the guys. after that went home. that evening me, zura, mo, fazly, swen, shaz, umie, mal, and bear had dinner at TGI Fridays to celebrate zura, umie, and bear's birthday. it was a fun occasion. was supposed to go watch die hard 4.0 after that but a slight complication meant that me and zura had to miss it.

saturday was revenge day. finally get to watch die hard 4.0, but not before watching transformers before that and breakfast at mc donalds before transformers. die hard was cool. fun movie. i really enjoyed it.

what happened after the movie is something i still can't believe until now. during the movie, i switched off my phone and after that, it cannot be turned on anymore. damn. i only used it for 9 months. i tried switching batteries with zura but to no avail. went home and tried to charge it and try to use the usb cable to try and turn it on but still nothing happened. so i sent it for repair at a shop enar my house. the guy said i can get the phone back by Monday evening. i really hope so. and i hope that the repair won't be expensive.

today is sunday, tomorrow i will get back my phone (hopefully). i have class that evening but i don't have the mood to go. we'll see about it. i just came back from serdang to send zura off. i don't know when will be the next time i get to see her. it will be at least a few weeks before she comes back for a weekend.

Happy Birthday :)

2007-07-05T11:25:00.000+08:00

today is zura's birthday. she turns 22 today. didn't get a chance to spent time with her today, but i'm going with her to melacca tomorrow. so it will be fun. got her a necklace and a small locket. hope she likes it. and most importantly not lose/break it :p.

other than that, today has been pretty much pointless. had nothing to do the whole day and i'm freaking hungry right now. might go out and get a bite to eat later with swen. lets see if others might join.

yesterday on the other hand was quite fun. as usual, went to class, came back home. spent time at maulana. met ashaari for a while. which is always good. later me, tim, seth, fazly, bear, mal, naf, crip, ash and im had a story telling session at "padang chua". ghost stories to be exact. however there weren't that many left to tell. but it was fun. stayed there till around 4.20 then came home to sleep.

bob!

2007-07-02T04:12:00.000+08:00

today i had my hair cut. took it all off. well almost. after that went with amin to tesco to find shoes. had lunch after that followed by a swim with amin, im, shaz and umie.

after dinner we had a jamming session. it was good. i lost my voice for a while after a few songs, but it was definitely fun. the best song yesterday was bob by nofx. it is really a fun song to sing.

sleepy....

2007-07-01T14:44:00.000+08:00

played futsal today. today's session is a special one. 2 reasons to this is:
1. yoi is back!
2. that session is probably the last session for arip who is going to leave for australia next week. i wish him good luck on all his adventures there :)

i'm so tired. just woke up after a long night of sitting and waiting. i had to reformat my computer yesterday so it was really tiring as i had to wait and wait till everything is done. now that most of it is done, i can relax a bit.

TRANFORMERS!!!!!!

2007-06-29T00:35:00.000+08:00

i saw transformers the movie today. it was freaking awesome. could be the most exciting movie i seen in a while. i don't know if its because i grew up watching the cartoons or because it was just that good, but i really enjoyed watching it. we had a huge crowd watching with us. my friends bought 24 tickets for the show. we actually got 2 whole rows.

i felt like a 10 year old kid in the cinema. i was very-very close to jumping up and down in my seat. man, the movie brought back lots of good memories of playing with my old transformers toys. the good old days. when things were really simple and straight forward. i wish i could spent just one day like that again.

anyway, back to the movie. again i want to stress that it is friggin' awesome. the effects, the sounds, the actors and not forgetting the very hot looking actress. hehe. i would definately give it a 8.5 out of 10.

the best part is, us malaysians get to see it a few days ahead of the opening date for (i think) the rest of the world. lucky us!

a strange feeling

2007-06-28T16:05:00.000+08:00

i have had this feeling for the past few months. its that kind of gut feeling that you yourself believe to be true but does not want to trust. i don't really know whats going on.

only a few people knows what i am feeling inside. they are my significant other and 2 of my best friends.

what i feel you ask? i'm glad you asked. i feel like most of the people i trust and respect in my circle of friends are trying to distant themselves from me. i don't know why but i feel they are. its sad that i feel this way but it is something i cannot avoid from feeling. its in their actions, their words sometimes. i don't know if i'm being overly sensitive about it and that i'm just imagining things. but sometimes it seems to real. i hope to god that it is not.

life in a nut shell

2007-06-28T15:50:00.000+08:00

first post ever.

i don't really know why i made this blog in the first place. i blame it on the fact that i can't sleep right now. all i know is i have to wake up early tomorrow morning. which is really this morning (exactly 6 hrs from now).

well, a little bit about myself. male, 22 years old, 2nd child or 3 siblings. completed my primary school, secondary school and my diploma. currently struggling to complete my ACCA. which is the reason why i have to wake up so damn early tomorrow. i have to go for my registration day for my 3rd semester. ah well, what to do.